Figures
1 Birchbark document from Novgorod no. 246. A demand to return money. The 11th century 15
2 Graffito from the Church of the Savior on Nereditsa near Novgorod. The first syllables of the names of the seven days of the week. The late 13th or the first half of the 14th century 16
3 Mstislavâs Gospel, before 1117. A luxurious manuscript commissioned by Prince Mstislav, son of Vladimir, probably for the Annunciation Church in Gorodishche near Novgorod 21
4 Mstislavâs Charter, c. 1130. The earliest Rus single-sheet document on parchment traditionally kept with a later (13th-century) gilded silver seal of Prince Iaroslav, son of Vsevolod 27
5 The Hypatain MS. of the Hypatian Chronicle, c. 1418, fol. 84v. Annals for 897â915 32
6 The Laurentian Chronicle, 1377, fol. 1v. The beginning of the Povest vremennykh let 39
7 The Radzivill Chronicle, c. 1487, fol. 243v. Annal for 1201. The upper miniature depicts the travel of Prince Iaroslav from his father Vsevolod of Suzdal to his new throne in Pereyaslavl-upon-Dnieper. The left part of the lower image depicts the death of Prince Vladimir, son of Sviatoslav. The right part of the lower image depicts a moon eclipse 41
8 The principal urban centers of Old Rus 45
9 Graffito of St. Sophia Cathedral of Kiev no. 3 reporting a thunderstorm in 1052 60
10 Easter table for 532 years with annalistic notes (GIM., Syn. 325, fol. 192v, the mid-14th century) 69
11 The Synodal MS. of the First Novgorodian Chronicle (the first scribe, c. 1234), fol. 21r. Annals for 1140â1 175
12 The Synodal MS. of the First Novgorodian Chronicle (the second scribe, c. 1330), fol. 166v. Annal for 1330 (the end of the portion written by the second scribe) 176
13 The Commission MS. of the First Novgorodian Chronicle, the mid-15th century, fol. 30r. Annals for 854 and 920 177
14 The Academic MS. of the First Novgorodian Chronicle, the mid-15th century, fol. 74r. Annals for 1108â13 178
15 A stemma of the Novgorodian annals 184
16 The Synodal MS. of the First Novgorodian Chronicle (the first scribe, c. 1234), fol. 62r. Annals for 1199â1200 and palaeographical change in the 9th line from the top 190
17 St. Sophia Cathedral of Novgorod (founded in 1045) 214
18 St. Georgeâs Monastery near Novgorod. The church of St. George founded in 1119 is in the background. In the foreground one sees the church of the Savior built in 1823â4 244
19 The Synodal MS. of the First Novgorodian Chronicle, fol. 167r. The first and the second additions, annals for 1130â3. The political alteration is in the 6th and the 7th lines from the bottom 250
20 The Synodal MS. of the First Novgorodian Chronicle, fol. 167v. The second and the third additions, annals for 1333 and 1137 251
21 Annalistic notes in GIM, Syn. 330, fol. 281v (the late 12th century) 254
22 The church of Annunciation in the Annunciation Monastery near Novgorod, founded in 1179 256
23 Distribution of âmessagesâ in the Kievan Chronicle 349
Tables
1 Rus pre-1400 written material: Statistics 14
2 The Chronology of PP and PVL 136
3 Vladimirâs military expeditions before the conversion in PP and PVL 139
4 Cases of haplography in Novgorodian annals 182
5 Kinds of events reported by contemporary sections of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 240
6 Kinds of events reported by the Anglo-Saxon and the Novgorodian annals 241
7 Kinds of events reported by the Chronicle of Ireland and the Annals of Novgorod 242
8 Notes on building in Syn. and N1Y s.a. 1333 246
9 Notes for 1337 and 1345 in Syn. and N1Y 248
10 The style of notes on building of churches in Laur. and the changes of bishops of Rostov 292
11 Timberlakeâs segments of PVL and offices of abbots of the Cave Monastery 295
12 The usage of the March and the ultra-March styles in the Kievan Chronicle and the succession of abbots of the Cave Monastery 299
13 Kinds of events recorded in the principal early Rusâ annalistic texts 305
14 A comparison of the content of the annals of England, Ireland and Rus 313
15 Contexts in which non-Rurikids are mentioned in the annals of the South and the Northeast 324
16 Rurikâs âmessageâ to Vsevolod in Hyp. and Laur. 347
17 Four episodes of the building of churches in the Novgorodian annals 375
18 Distribution of notes on family events 379
Diagrams
1 Stemma of the witnesses of PVL by Donald Ostrowski 96
2 Modified stemma of the witnesses of PVL by Aleksei Gippius 98
3 The distribution of the more verbose readings of Syn. in comparison to N1Y 186
4 The distribution of variant readings in dating formulas, where Syn. is more verbose in comparison to N1Y 187
5 Distribution of ânon-politicalâ notes in Syn., 1115â1238 309
6 Distribution of ânon-politicalâ notes in N1, 1240â1330 310
7 Distribution of ânon-politicalâ notes in the Hyp., 1110â1200 311